Who knows, they could've lived long happy lives and died naturally. Motor boating and living the dream.
Bigslams shed chronicles
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I highly doubt they avoided the 8-9 treestands that were in the woods and the huge pile of eared corn that was still on the ground. Must be a bunch of masterbaiters around there lol.
I would of rather found their sheds for sure. I'm going to try the satin white paint on the old skull and some walnut minwax on the antlers. I'll boil the fresh one and mount it on a piece of old barn wood and it'll come in the house.
No, but there must be at least 2-3 in there. The fresh deadhead was laying 30 yards from a treestand. Which leads me to believe that nobody hunting that property shot that buck. Plus the property is only 80 acres, 20 of it being wooded.
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Another deadhead. This one hits close to home, I hunt this area. I believe it was hit by a car, found it 100 yards off the road.
It stunk, like they usually do. Rodents don't ever chew on the antlers of deadheads for some reason.
The body looks to be intact also. Not all pulled apart and littered all over the woods.
My first attempt at antler color restoration, the light walnut turned out a little darker that I would of liked but it looks better than it did when I found it. Sprayed the skull with satin white.
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Thanks guys, my buddy just did an old rack with some red oak minwax and it turned out good. I'll try that next time.